[UK] Express Rewards Credit Card. 3 MR Express per £1 at supermarkets.
Jul 20, 2012, 12:31 pm
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[UK] Express Rewards Credit Card. 3 MR Express per £1 at supermarkets.
Didn't know this card exists until it showed up in Martin Lewis' weekly e-mail (top man). It's on a hidden bit of Amex's site because it's a Moneysupermarket exclusive for the time being.
http://www.moneysupermarket.com/cred...rchRequestId=0
Anyway, the good stuff. The card has no annual fee and earns Membership Rewards Express points, which cannot usually be converted to airline or hotel points. However of you also have a Gold, Platinum or Centurion card in your Membership rewards account then it will earn full MR points instead.
So why bother with it? Well look at these category bonuses.
3 points for £1 on supermarket spend (we all know how to milk that with gift cards right?
)
2 points for £1 on department store spend.
1 point per £1 elsewhere.
If you used it solely for supermarket spend, and converted all the MR points to Starpoints, you'd be earning at a faster rate than the Starwood Amex. Lovely.
Have fun.
http://www.moneysupermarket.com/cred...rchRequestId=0
Anyway, the good stuff. The card has no annual fee and earns Membership Rewards Express points, which cannot usually be converted to airline or hotel points. However of you also have a Gold, Platinum or Centurion card in your Membership rewards account then it will earn full MR points instead.
So why bother with it? Well look at these category bonuses.
3 points for £1 on supermarket spend (we all know how to milk that with gift cards right?
)2 points for £1 on department store spend.
1 point per £1 elsewhere.
If you used it solely for supermarket spend, and converted all the MR points to Starpoints, you'd be earning at a faster rate than the Starwood Amex. Lovely.
Have fun.
Last edited by The Corrupt Banker; Jul 20, 2012 at 1:04 pm Reason: Fixed broken link
Jul 20, 2012, 12:44 pm
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Previous discussion of this rewards program here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...points-uk.html
Clicking the link in The Corrupt Banker's post does not work reliably for me. However, it will work if I copy the URL and paste it into an Incognito or Private Browsing tab.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...points-uk.html
Clicking the link in The Corrupt Banker's post does not work reliably for me. However, it will work if I copy the URL and paste it into an Incognito or Private Browsing tab.
Last edited by mia; Jul 20, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Jul 20, 2012, 2:09 pm
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The card has no annual fee and earns Membership Rewards Express points, which cannot usually be converted to airline or hotel points. However of you also have a Gold, Platinum or Centurion card in your Membership rewards account then it will earn full MR points instead.
3 MR points/£ for shopping at Waitrose/Tesco/etc on a no-fee card would make this unbeatable IMO and the best since my long-lamented GE Money MasterCard disappeared some years ago.
Thanks for the link, The Corrupt Banker, which is hard to find at moneysupermarket.com and which I could not find at MSE.
Jul 21, 2012, 10:08 am
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The ability to combine points earned with multiple cards would be a feature of the program, not of an individual card. I would not expect to see it mentioned in the terms of any card. In the USA Membership Rewards and Express points can be combined, but this does not necessarily apply in other markets. I would ask customer service.